72 ,:"..: - "-....-............. presenf$ " ; i (> . .,() .g'i" <.j.. ', c.Olö v.'E.ÐA{ PARIS 1927 ') " . : :1 ;.:.:.:-: """"'" "'. , I/" < . ". " i ':': .,',^ ,)! . w I I . EAU DE FLEURS """ CONCENTREE . The Ultimate in Perfumery 4, oz.. $2.50 Plu Fed. Tax , i ...".'-....i 71 East 56th Street LUNCHEON COCKY AILS' DINNER SUPPER CY WALTER Of the piano during supper LES CROSLEY' p10ys during c.ocktails, dinner' .the flIP ,/ ('))\. ,f '.' , o e ltan:e .:..P.ar.k.Avenue ot 56th. Stre,e.t. estimated the intangibles; we relied too much on techniques of reporting which are no longer foolproof; Just as he was too isolated with other politicians, so we were too isolated with other reporters; :] and we, too, were far too impressed by ; the tidy statistics of the polls. . . . \lVe ' , :, , tend to assume that somebody else is do- ing the original reporting. . . and if the I assumptions of the political managers, or i the other reporters, or the polls are wrong (as they were in this campaign), "".! then our reports are wrong. The great s j intangible of this election was the polit- ical influence of the Roosevelt era on the thinking of the nation. . . and we didn't give enough weight to it. Con- sequently we were wrong, not only on the election, but, what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time." Frank Conniff, another member of the J ournal-A merican' s squad of colum- nists, said it all in one sentence on N 0- vember 5th: "They [ the reporters] underestimated the intelligence of the American voter." F o R two weeks the air has been full of the stories of bulls committed by publications that were sure. Dewey would win and that printed the news before it happened. Most of the items, such as the headline "Dewey Defeats Truman," which reached thousands of Chicago Tribune readers, and the Alsop brothers' column headed "Flying Dual Cop-trol" ("Oddly enough, the mem- bers of the outgoing Administration seem to be more concerned with this urgent problem than the entourage of the victorious candidate"), which ran in the Herald Tribune on November 3 rd, have received a great deal of pub- licity. But until half an hour ago I had not seen an editorial that ran in the De- troit Free Press on the morning after the election, under the heading "LA.ME DUCK PRESIDENT-A WAY OUT ." Be- cause you miss the sweep of the thing unless you get it all, I quote the editorial in its entirety: After his defeat at the polls in 1928, Alfred E. Smith remarked that neither he nor the 15,000,000 Americans who had voted for him would be shot or sent to concentration camps. That's what might have happened to them in Soviet Russia. The American way is to forget the campaign and to pulJ together and make our system of government work. The one exception was in 1860-and that led to our greatest domestic tragedy. A comparable tragedy can now be averted only by this Nation presenting a solid front to its enemies abroad and at home. The Detroit Free Press has, and it be- lieves most other Americans have, a good NOVEMDEI\. 2. 0, 1 9 -+ 8 '-.li;..k: ,&'U m St ..' ., 'i . .... y: .........} t- ! tinest (English Ale " t . f t : . f The product of over 200 years' brewing experience t ;>i, , l :" .:::" .- :} . ....... :.. ..:. .*r:r, .., , i An ale 01 Quality t. and Distinction '- , i , Famous an over the World i . Brewed and bottled < : in En /and by I : ; WHITBREAD & CO.,Ltd. [, : Brewers since 1742 :i,lii;)!:;;l;;i';rt i ;:: ';.... Whit bread's Pale Ale I ",'" IMPORTED BY r. 'i< Greenw . ich Vil1age Beverages, Inc., N. Y. f Suffern Distributon, Inc., Mahwah, N. J. , Edward Goodman, Brooklyn 3, N. Y. Premium Beer Diat., New Hyde Park, N. Y. . \ Mt. Kisco Bottling Co., Mount KISCO, N. Y. # Bailis Brothen, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. -Ibo. , The L. C. Bates Co., New Haven, Conn. '''/ '<".$..&,, ,.,^,,"'!I!< ....-;...,.,æ '<",<'", ,<_" . "j;."..$./....: .#./ :'i'P'f: 4 ":=..... :-,,-' --=!r. ' .1'<........"...,- .("' ".;IF 'Ip""-ffp- ... '!'".0112" "".'\. rot -. L- - THE e a)}njtlea{neH Ih je/ectw} 0/ ltea1?ea}( in {hii e;tat/iJk. ?llent ij leltelßed to k un- efjualled e(je{(:here. C(ðat;anU;?Â PARK AVENUE AT 47th STREET þ ..""" .. :. 'i<t::i:Á Y:" "::: ! .. II ;;... i:, - - r;'_7 f""".', _ : -- ./ - ':..:i.:...,.. COLONIAL AIRLINES, Depto: 23 630 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK 20 .-:....", .., / " Please send me your FREE :... :# . .,'., ' i booklet "Skycruises to Bermudo" ' , :'''t. :: ::: :::::: =::::::: : : : ::.:::'::::' _'. ',.. .. :'i. j r.Aî" ! . :